25 Cool New Things You’ll See in ‘Thor: The Dark World’

Published 1 year ago
by
Rob Keyes
, Updated October 3rd, 2013 at 6:09 pm,

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The Stone Man From Saturn

We’ve heard numerous references in the trailer and on the set to a time 5,000 years ago when the Dark Elves were last seen, and in the second official Thor 2 TV Spot, Thor warns: “Every 5,000 years the worlds align, allowing an ancient darkness to strike.”

Coincidence or not, in Marvel Comics lore it was 5,000 years ago when the Kronans attacked Earth, failed and retreated to one of the moons of Saturn where they set up camp, hence the name the “Stone Men of Saturn.” One of them is included in Thor: The Dark World as a tribute to Thor’s very first comic appearance in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Journey into Mystery Volume 1, Issue #83 from August, 1962. This also marked the first appearance of the Kronans.

Said producer Craig Kyle, while showing us artwork of the Stone Golem:

“We have the Stone Man from Saturn in this film [LAUGHS] that does face off with Thor. You’re the only ones who see the picture that actually understand what that is. [LAUGHS] Those of you that don’t these are the first guys that Thor fought in the comics. So, it’s pretty epic that we have to bring ‘em out.”

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I’ll comb through it later, but the pic above of Chris Hemsworth was a bit off compared to the first Thor movie and his reprisal in Avengers… He looks A LOT thinner and MUCH less bulky than before, even in his scale armor. What gives?

You always wonder where the money goes when you see the insane budgets of these films. This article pretty much explains it. Its crazy how much work and detail go into producing these movies. Also wondering what happens to all the sets and props after production? Do they just sell them off or stack them in some giant warehouse somewhere until they have a reason to reuse them?

Whosoever is worthy of holding the mighty Keyes shall have the power of holding props aloft in victory and writing articles about it after.

Nice work, Rob.

The black hole stuff got me thinking….maybe Malekith can’t use telekinesis and actually used that smaller black hole creating thing to hold Jane in mid-air, threatening to open it wider and allow her to fall through unless Thor agrees to do something for him?

Wow. This movie sounds like a true Thor tale. I loved the first film, but it was mostly very grounded on Earth (no pun intended.) That being said, I am very grateful that it still embraced the more fantastical side of the original Thor comics rather than the more “realistic(?)” approach of the Ultimate comics. I’m very excited to see Thor in his element rather than a sort of fish out of water like the first film and The Avengers.

I understand that, but it’s like giving the Joker red hair. Sure, it doesn’t change the performance of the actor much, but it just isn’t truthful to the character.

If you ever watch the show Avatar:TLA, in the episode The Ember Island Players, they put Zuko’s scar on the wrong side. A kid later approaches Zuko to appreciate his Zuko “costume”, but tells him that his scar (his actual scar) is on the wrong side. This upsets Zuko, as Malekith’s burn has upset me.

I still think they may be saving them for Thor 3, if indeed the film is made. They can easily be included as working for Surtur. Also, not sure where I heard it, but the mention of maybe killing off Jane Foster in this film can lead to the Sif-Enchantress-Thor love triangle.

The first cool thing you’ll see in the movie is me sitting in the front row of the theater, munching popcorn and panting over Sif (the girl, not the disease!~). As for the other 24 cool things, who the heck knows?

I will see Thor 2 but am not excited for it, I get this feeling that all the realms we haven’t seen will look like generic and unoriginal crap we have all seen before, this is a freakin sci-fi movie for crying out loud with a big budget. No golden apples or thor using his helmet? That is lame, Origin of Kurse? Lame, that origin is a stale one we have all seen before, and those weapons? I am not impressed. It all looks lame too. I like the first thor movie but have a feeling this one will be terrible, I certainly don’t care for the game of thrones influence, making it like game of thrones is a lazy and un-creative direction.

So…what would be original considering the Vikings lived, pillaged and invaded in countries traditionally seen as dark, grey, represented as perfectly as we can imagine by the GOT scenes shot in Ireland?

“The Singularity” you say…?
Because the term “Singularity” is often used to describe the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence (this is a very nutshell version, from what I understand).
Could be a case of Marvel just using a cool word…..but I wonder….